Qualimetric Assessment of the Level of Formation of Professional Competencies of University Graduates in the Field of Information Technologies

The main of the dominant indicators of university graduates' readiness for a successful functioning in the modern information society is the level of their professional competence in the field of practical application of information and communication technologies. The analysis of the conformity of graduates' readiness convincingly indicates a "chronic" lag from the needs and requirements of the sixth level of the National Qualifications Framework of the Russian Federation. The main sources for the development of pedagogical tools for a digital assessment of graduates' professional competencies formation in educational institutions were the domestic experience of professional training of masters in the field of training 04.04.04 Professional Training (By Industry) under the Information Security Management in Vocational Education profile. The main research methods were the theoretical analysis of scientific literature on the digital assessment of graduates' professional competencies, their structuring by level, as well as a generalization of the characteristics of the university stage of monitoring practice-oriented professional competencies in educational, professional, research, organizational, and technological activities. Obtaining complete and objective information for taking reasonable measures to improve the quality of education, for adjusting professional education to the modern needs of the labor market largely depends on the correctness of expert assessments of the complexity of test tasks and their objectivity. This is achieved using weighting factors for each of the assessed factors that are prioritized in accordance with the necessary requirements for their content, representativeness, validity, latency, and cognitivity. Observing the principles of a systematic approach in the study performed the role of a general scientific basis that ensured the formulation of the problem at the many levels of its consideration: the study of the essential features, nature and internal structure of the digital assessment process. The active approach is actualized as a practice-oriented tactic that contributes to the effectiveness of the processes that make the final value of graduates' professional competencies adequate to the modern and predicted needs of society, employers, and students themselves. The results obtained in the study show that the proposed algorithm of the digital (qualimetric) assessment of the formation of professional competencies is primarily effective in terms of practical significance as it allows predicting the preventive satisfaction of requests and requirements of society, employers, and of conditions and opportunities import substitution.